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A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause over a gigatonne of CO₂ emissions during its lifetime. That’s a billion tonnes – more than twice the UK’s annual emissions from a single project.

Energy-hungry industries get little advantage from Australia being richly endowed with gas and coal, but mining and steelmaking could win in a net-zero economy.

In tonight's edition: Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia intensifies further, as both federal forces and Tigrayan rebels accuse each other of opening up new fronts. Also, in South Africa, parents of the 21 young people who died in June at a tavern in the Eastern Cape are told their children…

This week, the Australian Energy Market Operator warned gaps in electricity supply are likely within three years.

The Jobs and Skills Summit has been told a transition agency for coal and gas workers would be critical to boost employment in a clean-energy economy.

Government aiming to scale up coal production target to 1.25 billion tonnes by FY25

The expansion of the Carborough coal mine in central Queensland has been approved by the state government, allowing the project to operate for another 11 years.

The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment this week when the state’s dirtiest source of electricity burned its final pieces of fuel